Gertrude Grace "Trudy" Hoffer

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• Name: Gertrude Grace "Trudy" Klinck
• Name: Trudy Hoffer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-258697

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KLINCK, Gertrude "Trudy" Grace (nee Hoffer) - October 6, 1919 - October 10, 2007. Passed into eternal life peacefully at K-W Health Centre of Grand River Hospital. Predeceased by her husband, Frank Klinck; her parents, Aaron and Urana "Rene" (Esch) Hoffer and sister, Lloy Reichard. Loving mother of Lynne (Dave) Hipel and Stephen (Rhonda) Klinck; devoted grandmother to David (Stephanie) Hipel, Andrea (Chrys) Greenwood, Ian Klinck (fiancee Ines), Tonja (Lawrence) Hansen and Rebekah (Andrew) Bradshaw; great-grandmother to Jessyca and Alex Greenwood, Tahnee Hipel, Melissa Baumgartner, Jess Anderson and Avaleigh Grace Hansen. Survived by sisters, Ruth McLaughlin, Vivian Huehn, and Jean Wagner; brother, John "Jack" Hoffer; brothers-in-law, Carl Wagner and Ab Lorch and many nieces and nephews. For nearly twenty years, Trudy taught at the Guiding Light School in Elmira, putting into practice her love for children with special needs. Our special thanks to the staff at Chateau Gardens Assisted Living Centre, Elmira, where Trudy lived the past five years, and to the nurses and staff on 6 South and the O.R. doctors and nurses at Grand River Hospital. Trudy's family will welcome visitors Sunday, October 14, 2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at Dreisinger Funeral Home in Elmira. Funeral service will be conducted by the Rev. Richard Frey on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 11 a.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Elmira where Trudy was a lifelong member. Interment will follow at Elmira's Union Cemetery

The Record 11 Oct 2008

Gertrude married Lieutenant Franklin George "Frank" Klinck 1 Jan 1942. Franklin (son of Charles Edmund Klinck and Hilda Edna Strome) was born 1920, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1956, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Lynne Klinck
2. Stephen Klinck

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-259378
• Occupation: 1910, Bright, Blandford Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario; clerk
• Elected Office: 1926, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Elmira Reeve
• Elected Office: 1933, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Warden

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Aaron W. Hoffer, Elmira, Dies at 85

Elmira - Aaron W. Hoffer of Elmira, who served on town council for 20 years, 14 as reeve, died Sunday at K-W Hospital. He was 85. Mr. Hoffer was reeve of Elmira from 1926 to 1940 and he became warden of Waterloo County in 1933. He was a member of the first Elmira high school board. In 1913 Mr. Hoffer went into the shoe business and by 1917 was the first manufacturer of felt bootees in Canada. The A. W. Hoffer Stork Brand Bootees were still on the market in 1960. The company supplied the T. Eaton Co. with a line of bootees for many years. Mr. Hoffer was born in Floradale, Jan. 4, 1885, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hoffer. His wife, the former Urana Esch, a foster daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Steddick, who he married March 28, 1910, died in 1962. Since 1913, he had been a member of the Elmira board of Trade, and was an honorary member of the board when he retired. He was a member of the board of St. Paul's Lutheran Church and a member of Elmira recreation committee.

When he moved to Elmira in 1913, he bought a home on the southwest corner of Arthur and Water streets where the post office is now located. In 1924 the government chose his corner lot as the site for the post office. The house was moved by horsepower and windlass with the furniture in place and oil lamps left on tables. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Stewart (Lloy) Reichard of Elmira, Mrs. Kenneth (Ruth) McLaughlin of Belmont, Mrs. Franklin (Trudy) Klink of Elmira, Mrs. Stewart (Vivian) Huehn of Elmira and Mrs. Carl (Jean) Wagner of Beamsville; one son John of Winnipeg, 14 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Two sisters and three brothers predeceased him. The body will be at the Dreisinger Funeral Parlor, Elmira, until Wednesday noon, when removal will be made to St. Paul's Church for a funeral service at 2: 30 p.m. Burial will be made in Elmira cemetery. Rev. D. A. Fritz will officiate.

Elmira Signet 11 Jan 1970

Aaron married Edith Urana "Rene" Esch 28 Mar 1910, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Edith (daughter of Menno Esch and Susannah Cherry) was born 9 Jul 1883, , Ontario, Canada; died 8 May 1962, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Edith Urana "Rene" Hoffer
• Name: Rene Esch
• Residence: 74 Arthur St., Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-56636
• Occupation: 1901, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Domestic
• Residence: 1910, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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MRS. AARON HOFFER

Mrs. Aaron Hoffer age 77 yrs. Of 74 Arthur St., Elmira died at the K-W Hospital on Tuesday May 8 after a short illness. She was the former Edith Esch daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Menno Esch and was born July 4^th 1884 in Manitoba.

She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Member of the Ladies Aid and the W.M.M.S.

Surviving are her husband whom she married March 28, 1910 at Elmira, one son A. John of Elmira, five daughters; Mrs. Stewart (Lloy Reichard) Elmira, Mrs. Kenneth (Ruth McLaughlin) of Exeter, Mrs. Frank (Trudy Klinck) of Elmira, Mrs. Stewart (Vivian) Huehn, Elmira, Mrs. Rev. Carl (Jean Wagner), Beamsville, 14 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren, one sister Mrs. Guerta MacArthur, Vancouver, 2 brothers and 2 sisters predeceased her.

Remains at the Dreisinger Funeral parlor Elmira until Friday at 1 when removal will be made to St. Paul's Lutheran church for service at 3 p.m. Burial will take place in the Elmira Cemetery Rev. Frank Malinsky will officiate.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-261580
• Birth: 1838, , Alsace Lorraine, France
• Residence: 1867, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada

Jacob married Catherine Weismiller 26 Mar 1867, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Catherine was born 14 Sep 1845, , Darmstadt, Germany; died 4 Jan 1928, Floradale, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Birth: , Ontario, Canada
• Name: Catherine Hoffer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-261581
• Occupation: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Maid
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1867, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-51963
• Residence: 1913, Woodstock, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1922, , Saskatchewan, Canada

Menno married Susannah Cherry 1 Jun 1875, Maryborough Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada. Susannah was born 1843, East Gwillimbury Twp., York Co., Ontario; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Susannah Esch
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-91075

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• Eby ID Number: 00058-3909.1
• Residence: 1846, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Michael married Maria W. "Polly" Horst 22 Dec 1846, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Maria (daughter of Christian Horst and Eva M. Wanner) was born 30 Sep 1826, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 26 Sep 1895; was buried , Elmira Mennonite Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maria W. "Polly" Esch
• Name: Maria W. "Polly" Koenig
• Name: Polly Horst
• Eby ID Number: 00058-3909
• Residence: 1846, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonist

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Polly Horst, "was first married to Michael Esch and after his decease she was married to George Koenig. They reside in Peel Township, Wellington County, near Yatton P.O., where he is engaged in farming. She has a large family but names of children were not received"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].